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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1972
Page
2
Neil Jacoby of the federal Pay Board argues for extending wage and price controls through 1973 and lowering the wage raise guideline from 5.5 to 4 percent. He favors higher taxes to curb inflation and calls for price ceilings where demand outstrips supply, plus removal of structural rigidities in markets.
Caltech researchers unveil a high speed gun capable of firing plastic bullets at up to 30 000 mph to simulate core conditions. By analyzing shock waves from rock samples, Dr. T H Ahrens hopes to determine whether silicone or sulphur dominates the earth's core and infer formation timing.
Entered as second class mail in Lompoc California 93436 under Act of Congress this adjudicated legal newspaper under Superior Court Decree No. 47065 The Lompoc Record is published by Lompoc Record Publications a California Corporation with officers President Mrs Kenneth L Adam Editor and Vice President Harry J Crompe Lawrence C Grossman J Donald Adam Rennie L Adam Gaylen Jackson Tim Conner board member and secretary treasurer Clete Lunny mechanical superintendent Wesley A Huffman circulation manager Ray McCuen News Editor Betty Laurent Society Editor Scott Ostler Sports Editor Steve LaRue Vaughn Proctor Dan Duffy photographer Stan Tulledo Feature Editor
Ralph Nader unveils the first results of his Congress Project with a 225 page paperback Who Runs Congress and plans profiles on every House and Senate member. He aims to study key committees and reforms while some lawmakers oppose his raid on Congress.
California marks the first anniversary of the 1971 Welfare Reform Act with Gov. Reagan claiming savings cut welfare and Medi‑Cal costs and counties will lower taxes. He notes welfare costs rose 105 million in 1971‑72, while 220,653 fewer cases since March 1971. Beilenson calls projections fraudulent, and officials warn full effects remain unseen amid lawsuits.
In Laurinburg North Carolina Forenzio Concippio's body was finally buried in a cement sealed vault after 61 years in a glass tomb. The ceremony drew about 100 locals and newsmen with Father Frederick Gilbert officiating and money raised by local supporters. Concippio was killed in 1911 in a carnival worker dispute and his body had become a local folklore exhibit in an upright coffin at McDougald Funeral Home until the burial.
NASA managed mission from JPL reveals Mariner 10 to launch from Cape Kennedy in late 1973 for Venus flyby in February 1974. A Venus gravity assist will propel the 1,100-pound spacecraft to Mercury for a close 635 mile pass and ultraviolet surface study with two television cameras aboard.
On October 2 1942 test pilot Robert Stanley flew the Bell XP59 Airacomet at the Mojave guarded site. The jet prototype, assembled at Muroc now Edwards AFB, made a 10 minute first flight after a prior taxiing debut and a guarded two crates transfer from Buffalo and Niagara Mohawk power plant.
President Nguyen Van Thieu said South Vietnam will not share power with Communists and warned another North Vietnamese offensive could come this year. He asserted only South Vietnam may decide its war fate and urged victory to end the conflict. His message to Congress was read aloud.
In Brandon three family members and a house guest were shot to death at John Sanders dairy farm. Evelyn Sanders, 21, was unharmed. Thomas Turner Chambers, 32, and Robert Gerald Harris, 21, were charged after a high speed chase over the Howard Frankin Bridge. Chambers had been living with Evelyn Sanders and is the father of her youngest child.
San Francisco police posing as sailors busted a large narcotics party on a San Francisco Bay ferry Sunday night arresting 45 people. Marijuana hashish cocaine and heroin were seized. Most arrestees were from the San Francisco Peninsula with two juveniles among them.
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